Re: GRUB launch a CD?



On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:47:39PM +1000, M-L wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all:
--} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote:
--} > On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with
us all: --} > >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +0000, David Dawson
wrote: --} > >--} > cls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
--} > >--} >
--} > >--} > sbm (smart boot manager)
--} > >--} > It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you
dd to --} > > a --} > floppy and use it to boot from.
--} > >--}
--} > >--} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it.
--} >
--} > I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question?
--} >
--} > But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at
startup? That --} > is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from
CDROM if you have SMB --} > on a CD?
--}
--} Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM.

Change that behaviour in the BIOS. That's if the machine is capable of booting
from the CDROM?

Its not. My BIOS doesn't know anything about CDROMS since they were
hugely expensive when that box was made in 1992.

IIRC, the part of this thread before the comments you quoted was about
getting a computer whos bios can't boot a CDROM to boot a CDROM and
someone else suggested sbm. I had tried it last year on my 486 and it
didn't work.

Doug.


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